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In the spirit of nurturing the best parts of ourselves, why not email me your phone number? I’ll call and say howdy. We’ll make contact. It’s part of fighting the good fight against the inevitable encroachment of a technologically driven world.

But be warned. If I get your recorded message, I probably won’t call back.

Sid Tanenbaum, who lived in Woodmere and owned a metal-stamping shop in Far Rockaway, where he was known more for his charitable ways than his two-handed set shot, has been honored for the past 30 years with a basketball tournament that raises scholarship money for students in the Five Towns.